John Brownjohn

John Maxwell Brownjohn (11 April 1929[1][2] – 6 January 2020) was a British literary translator.[3] He translated more than 160 books, and won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German translation three times and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize once. He also collaborated with the filmmaker Roman Polanski on Tess (1979), Pirates (1986), Bitter Moon (1992), The Ninth Gate (1999) and The Pianist (2002).

John Brownjohn
Born
John Maxwell Brownjohn

(1929-04-11)11 April 1929
Died6 January 2020(2020-01-06) (aged 90)
OccupationLiterary translator

Brownjohn was born in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. He died in January 2020 at the age of 90.[4]

Selected works

gollark: I would add another one, but it says "too many reactions".
gollark: What is this "MOT"?
gollark: ... is that an <:illum:531316942443642880> on there?
gollark: How do you derive the rules and what do you mean by "branches on the picture"?
gollark: I don't know how to actually implement the thing it says about identifying things uniquely by "a sequence of numbers which says where to turn at each intersection", since it seems like you'd need a way to convert them into a unique/canonical form for that to actually work.

References

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